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Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

The day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. Okay, it didn’t “surface”—ThinkProgress, the well-known left-wing blog, dug up a sermon from the 1990s in which Giglio calls homosexuality a sin, worries that same-sex marriage will undermine…

Dads Against Daughters Dating

By Julie Ingersoll

…materials boast that the 1599 bible was the first to include chapters and numbered verses… and was widely popular because of the marginal notes written by reformation leaders (especially John Calvin). Tolle Lege Press and Reformation Bookstore were founded by Brandon Vallorani who now also works for Gary DeMar’s American Vision in the suburbs of Atlanta. These organization comprise a very tight knit community of men (they appear in various config…

Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…ention’s current president, Bryant Wright, pastor of a large megachurch in Atlanta, moved for the task force in part to galvanize sentiment for the change, as did some African American and Hispanic pastors who have aligned with the SBC (often in dual alignments with their historic ethnically-defined denominations, such as the black National Baptist Convention) in recent years in order to tap its considerable resources in church support. While the…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…the same bill that cast abortion as “black genocide,” helping fuel a 2010 Atlanta billboard campaign depicting African American children as an “endangered species.” PRENDA could be this year’s Pence Amendment—named for its author Indiana Rep. Mike Pence (now running for Governor of Indiana) and his attempt to bring down Obama’s health care law over the federal funding of Planned Parenthood. PRENDA, like the Pence Amendment, is red meat for the an…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

My partner and I moved from Atlanta to South Carolina not too long after the Episcopal Church ordained Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop. Since we were embarking upon a new life in a new place, we decided to check out the Episcopal churches in the area. I sent an email to the rector of the church in the town we would be moving to and asked him if his church was welcoming to gays and lesbians. His response was one that Ted Haggard would…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…nse, when I depart I am going toward this goal; but I travel alone, and in Atlanta, for example, no one really knows why I am wearing white. It’s just an outfit. But when you’re together with others in white—and particularly the men in their two unstitched white cloths—there at the waiting area for the flight to Jeddah, you’re visibly traveling for hajj. I am with them. They are with me and we are part of what will eventually swarm to three millio…

Ann Coulter Puts the “Con” in “Homocon 2010”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…shills. Back in the early 90s, I worked with Sean Hannity at WGST Radio in Atlanta just as he got his big call to go to New York and work for FOX. Every day Hannity would rail against gays and lesbians, stirring up hatred and strife against them. Then, at lunch, he and his openly lesbian producer would head out for a friendly meal together. Before Sean left, I approached him in his office and asked if, for his last show, he’d lay off the gay baiti…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…SWNT. I was sixteen during the 1996 Olympics. My grandmother, who lived in Atlanta, let me borrow her car to drive up to Athens, Georgia, where the soccer games were being held. I remember the electricity in the stadium for the women’s final, but I also remember knowing that very few people outside of the stadium cared. Not only was it soccer, it was women’s soccer. Even the 1999 World Cup, celebrated though it was, was treated as a victory for Am…

Pray Vote Stand 2022 Kicks Off With Some Head-Scratchers on Predictable Topics

By PRA Staff

…a, it’s telling that the Family Research Council brought the conference to Atlanta. Mohler reminds the audience that, come November’s midterm elections, the whole country “will be looking at Georgia.” Georgia’s Senate hopefuls Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock were both invited to speak at Pray Vote Stand on Friday. Neither is confirmed, but we will let you know. Dr. Mohler and Allie Beth Stuckley, host of BlazeTV’s Relatable, a conservative new…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…statement on the issue of fracking, which is also affecting an increasing number of communities in the state, it has not publicized it widely either. The same reluctance to speak loudly and clearly can be seen in the Diocese’s response to worker justice issues. In 2013, during the Fairness at Patriot campaign, when church officials were asked why the bishop was not saying anything publicly in defense of the miners whose pensions and insurance wer…